SABMiller

SABMiller is the world's number three beer maker behind InBev and Anheuser-Busch. Its name comes from the 2002 purchase by SAB (South African Breweries) of Miller Brewing. The company has operations in over 60 countries. It dominates beer sales in Africa with its brand Castle Lager. SABMiller also produces wine, liquor, and fruit drinks and bottles Coca-Cola products. Altria Group previously owned Miller Brewing and currently owns about 30% of SABMiller.

The company has over 150 brands, some international and some local. Brands include Peroni Nastro Azzurro brewed in Italy, Carling Black Label, Lech, Snow, Pilsner Urquell, and Miller Beer.


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Tobacco involvement
Miller Brewing was a unit of Philip Morris Co., circa 1994 (WSJ 5/31/94).

Miller Beer, sometimes known simply by the initials "MGD" (an acronym for Miller Genuine Draft) has large-scale operations based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Miller was a subsidiary of the Philip Morris (PM) tobacco company. Philip Morris (now Altria Group) bought Miller Beer on June 12, 1969 from the W.R. Grace chemical company for $130 million and still maintains an interest in the company. 

PM used its food and drink subsidiaries to help advance several corporate goals: 1) to help escape the stigma of being a cigarette manufacturer, 2) to allow the company continue to exert financial influence in places where donations, advertising or sponsorship from a tobacco company would be rejected, 3) to help the company generate clandestine grassroots pressure to oppose tobacco-related public health measures (for example, by pressuring the management and employees of food and drink subsidiaries to participate in phone banks and letter-writing campaigns) and to allow the company to portray itself publicly and to stockholders as "more than just a tobacco company." page two

Political contributions
Miller Brewing gave $112,000 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its political action committee - 33% to Democrats and 67% to Republicans.

Lobbying
The company spent $674,024 for lobbying in 2006. Two lobbying firms as well as in-house lobbyists were used..

Personnel
Key people:
 * Meyer Kahn, Chairman
 * Ernest A. (Graham) Mackay, CEO and Director
 * Malcolm I. Wyman, Chief Financial Officer and Director

Selected board members:
 * Geoffrey Bible, Former Chief Executive Officer of Altria Group
 * Robert Fellowes, Chairman of Barclays Private Bank, former Private Secretary to the Queen
 * Robin Renwick, Former British Ambassador to the United States. He is Vice-Chairman, JPMorgan Cazenove Ltd.

Contact details
1 Stanhope Gate London W1K1AF, United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-7659-0100 Fax: +44-20-7659-0111 Web: http://www.sabmiller.com

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